Dominican PostFeel like winding up a radical Scottish socialist? Tell him that you watched the Rugby World Cup final with a woman from Edinburgh who supported England.
Och aye. Not only is rugby not the game for the working class, explained visiting Scottish Socialist Party MP Colin Fox, but a Scot supporting Her Majesty's team? It cannae be countenanced.
This is a man who was kicked out of the House in his first day as a member of the Scottish Parliament after refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen. Instead he sang a refrain from Robert Burns' ode to equality A Man's a Man for a' That.
Singing in parliament, the gangly 44-year-old republican discovered, is not allowed - no matter how nationalistic. Nor are a few other radical stunts he and fellow SSP members have pulled since they were elected this year.
They were issued their final warning on Friday after loudly protesting against United States President George Bush's visit to Britain.
Mr Fox is on a tour of New Zealand and Australia to talk about the Scottish socialists' success in the last election - they won five extra seats - and encourage New Zealand's Left-leaning movement to pull itself together too.
